Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, expressed the opinion today that the “gap” between the Israeli analysis of the Middle East situation and that of the United States had “somewhat narrowed but that does not mean that we are always agreed on the action that should follow.”
She added, in a radio interview here, that “on basic issues, we are in full agreement.” She listed these as the need for peace in the Middle East, real independence for all states in the area “and their right to freedom of fear of invasion or intervention.”
In a review of the recent United Nations General Assembly debate on the future of the Arab refugees, she stressed that there had been no progress, “at least in the attitudes” of the leaders of the Arab states. She said that the Arab spokesmen “do not really discuss the refugee question at all but only Israel.”
Discussing her forthcoming visit to East Africa, she said she would go to Madagascar, Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya. “Israel was most fortunate to have the friendship of so many of the emerging countries in Africa. If I can help to build this friendship by my visit, it will be well worthwhile.”
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